Reply to: Couple problem

[Mich the Tester]

Mr Arkwright's patented Universal Credit Dispensing Machine???

That's version 2.0; Distributed Processing Upgrade

[TheBigD]

Yes, they used Mr Arkwright's patented Universal Credit Dispensing Machine, demonstrated here by Mr Arkwright himself and a sweaty member of the working class.

Mr Arkwright's patented Universal Credit Dispensing Machine???

[Mich the Tester]

You mean they've been using analogue computers up to now?

The bald headed twat was given a bit of a roasting yesterday by Queen Liz IGlenda Jackson.

Yes, they used Mr Arkwright's patented Universal Credit Dispensing Machine, demonstrated here by Mr Arkwright himself and a sweaty member of the working class.

[AtW]

New digital UC system will operate at the speed of light...

[minestrone]

Why the fook they could not put PHP site that will take securely details of claimant and then some simple SQL based rules to calculate amount of credit needed? Capture the fooking data first, then you can change rules all you want and just query. How fooking hard is it to have SQL database for no more than 10 mln people???

You have to have been in one of these large scale government IT projects to appreciate how completely cretinous the decision makers are, I have seen it first hand and it is frightening.

[Mich the Tester]

I'm not saying this was, but fixed price contracts have been used for a while.

Template for fixed price contract;

Chapter 1, Price
< random number from 1 to 999>000,000 pounds

Chapter 2 Exceptions
<364 pages of abstract and impossible to avoid exceptions which will add extra to the price>

[AtW]

Why the fook they could not put PHP site that will take securely details of claimant and then some simple SQL based rules to calculate amount of credit needed? Capture the fooking data first, then you can change rules all you want and just query. How fooking hard is it to have SQL database for no more than 10 mln people???

[anonymouse]

I'm not saying this was, but fixed price contracts have been used for a while.

[MyUserName]

The problem wasn't "dragging it out for every penny", the original UC claimant website did get re-written though, this is the second version, the problem is with management and control. Accenture did try to get the thing done on time, at least on the part I was working on, which the Civil Service weren't happy about.

Probably because they were trying to drag it out for every penny they could and you were, annoyingly, trying to do a good job.

[fullyautomatix]

ATOS originally won the contract for the software and messed up badly. Accenture took over and I remember the guys grappling with the Sharepoint website working weekends and nights to get it delivered on time.

But the main problem was to do with the red tape and changing of minds of the politicians. They even hired the guy who was on panel of W3C or something to define the html standards and he was on 2K a day.

[Mich the Tester]

The problem wasn't "dragging it out for every penny", the original UC claimant website did get re-written though, this is the second version, the problem is with management and control. Accenture did try to get the thing done on time, at least on the part I was working on, which the Civil Service weren't happy about.

[anonymouse]

The problem wasn't "dragging it out for every penny", the original UC claimant website did get re-written though, this is the second version, the problem is with management and control. Accenture did try to get the thing done on time, at least on the part I was working on, which the Civil Service weren't happy about.

[minestrone]

Hope this helps...

[MyUserName]

It's Civil Service speak for "we'll try it in 4 areas in the North West and see what happens". If it works, we'll drag it out for every penny we can, if not we'll tinker with it until it we have dragged it out for every penny we can.

FTFY

[anonymouse]

It's Civil Service speak for "we'll try it in 4 areas in the North West and see what happens". If it works, great, if not we'll tinker with it until it does work.